RIPON, Calif. –-Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his home in ...

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RIPON, Calif. — Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, died Sunday. He was 61. Hawkins, who was battling pancreatic cancer, passed away at his home in ...

“Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America” permeated the Kennedy Center throughout the week as choirs, Grammy Award-winning soloists, soul singers, brass bands and gospel step teams displayed their ...

“Everybody has sung something written by Bishop Hawkins,” Bishop Wyatt I. Greenlee said about gospel icon Walter Hawkins, who passed away on Sunday. “Even if they didn’t know it was him.” Hawkins, ...

Walter Hawkins died at his home in Ripon over the weekend ... after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Hawkins was a pastor, but was best known as part of "The Edwin Hawkins Singers" ... a gospel ...